© Columbia University Press
Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market
December, 2004
Cloth, 320 pages, 18 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12734-9
$45.00
/ £31.00
"The author's extensive knowledge of the subject provides for an excellent, highly engaging volume...Highly recommended." — Choice
"Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market breaks new ground...with humor, elegance and sharp insight." — Mary L. Gray, International Journal of Communicaton
"In the last two decades, gayness-whose stigma used to chill advertisers and marketers-has become a hot commodity. Grounded in rigorous research, a taste for nuance and contradiction, the words of those she interviewed and her own fierce intelligence, Katherine Sender tells the story of how the gay market emerged, how it works, and with what cultural consequences. Business, Not Politics is the definitive book on the gay market." — Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco, author of Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
"With verve, rigor, and a savvy sense of nuance, Katherine Sender critically evaluates the explosion of gay imagery in mass marketing. While acknowledging the obvious problems of commodification and homogeneity inherent in such niche-marketing, she refuses the easy answers and instead offers up an analysis of depth and complexity that insists on a recognition of gay lives and loves outside the glossy space of Abercrombie pretty-boys and bootylicious lipstick lesbians." — Suzanna Danuta Walters, author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America and Chair of the Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University